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After a successful run at the box office, "Star Wars: The Force Awakens" has set its sights on your home theater. The movie now has DVD, Blu-ray and digital release dates.
"Star Wars: The Force Awakens" will be available for digital download on April 1...

"Star Wars" fever spread through movie theaters around the globe on Friday, even reaching the White House, as the franchise yet again began toppling box-office records with waves of lightsaber-wielding fans. Following a record $57 million from Thursday...

Disney's "Frozen" has captured the hearts of millions around the world - so much in fact that it has triggered a sing-along experience that will reach more than 1,000 theaters nationwide
“‘Frozen’ fans have embraced the film’s original songs and its...

Who: Kenneth Crooks, of Aventura
From: Comcast NBC in Broward County, as area vice president, operations
To: The Heart Gallery of Broward as executive director
About: Heart Gallery of Broward County is the fifth largest Heart Gallery in the U.S. out...

Janet Esteves' 1,900-square-foot condo in Celebration home is indeed a small world: It's a monument to Mickey Mouse, as she reportedly owns 6,000 Mickey items, reports the Orlando Sentinel.A Guinness World Records count put the 57-year-old woman's...

The Walt Disney Co. finally unveiled its plan to offer an over-the-top video streaming edition of ESPN for the growing number of fans who want live sports — but not the big cable bill that a previous generation paid.
Now the question is whether the...

Walt Disney Co.’s stock price, in the wake of an announcement that its movies will be pulled from Netflix, is bouncing back some this morning after sliding in after-hours trading.
Disney (NYSE: DIS) had closed at $106.98 per share before the company...

Walt Disney Co. will launch two Netflix-like streaming services — one for sports and another for films and television shows — in one of the boldest moves by an entertainment company to address the changing media landscape.
The stand-alone subscription...

Walt Disney Co. will launch two Netflix-like streaming services — one for sports and another for films and television shows — in one of the boldest moves by an entertainment company to address the changing media landscape.
The stand-alone...

Revenue for Disney Parks and Resorts rose 12 percent in its third quarter, to $4.9 billion, as Disney World opened its new Pandora – World of Avatar land, and operating income for the theme parks and resorts business increased 18 percent to $1.1 billion....

The Walt Disney Co. secretly collects personal information on some of their youngest customers and shares that data illegally with advertisers without parental consent, according to a federal lawsuit filed late last week in California.
The class-action...

A new Central Florida initiative will pair housing for homeless families with help in developing career paths that lead to financial independence, community leaders announced Friday.
Fueled in part by a grant from the Walt Disney Company, the program —...

Martin A. "Marty" Sklar, a right-hand man of Walt Disney and central figure in the development and expansion of his company's theme parks around the world, has died.
Disneyland spokeswoman Suzi Brown confirmed Sklar's death for The Associated Press. A...

Marty Sklar, a longtime Imagineer who had creative input in Disney attractions ranging from “it’s a small world” to Epcot, has died. He was 83.
He died at his home in Hollywood Hills, Calif., on Thursday.
“Everything about Marty was legendary —...

Do we need another hero? Uniqlo apparently thinks so. The Fast Retail brand revealed exclusively to WWD that the theme of its 2018 UTGP, or Uniqlo T-Shirt Grand Prix contest, is Marvel.
“We hope this will inspire artists and fans around the world to...

With plans confirmed for a new “immersive” land full of Marvel superheroes at its California Adventure Park, Walt Disney Co. must now pull off a magic trick worthy of that rival boy wizard: Build a major expansion at a theme park resort hemmed in on all...

The fifth installment of Johnny Depp’s piratical franchise took the lead in Friday’s box office, with the lifeguard comedy “Baywatch” coming in a distant second as the Memorial Day weekend kicked off.
“Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No...

Celebrities including Walt Disney Co. CEO Bob Iger and "Avatar" director Jim Cameron appeared at Disney's Animal Kingdom today as the theme park prepares to open its biggest expansion so far.
Pandora: The World of Avatar will open to the public...

Like most large corporations, major Hollywood studios are fond of outsourcing.
From coming attraction trailers that are designed to draw audiences into cinemas to eye-popping 3-D visual effects that burst off the screen, studios routinely farm out...